The documentary participated in the 24th Thessaloniki Film Festival.
As the Christos Paridis in LiFO, who sought out the filmmakers to talk to them:
Maybe. Humans, again, have by choice. We often forget, erase the past, each for different reasons. At the last, 24th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, a particularly interesting film premiered, entitled «Rooms with a view», signed by two young people, Nikoleta Paraschis and Nikolas Papadimitriou. It is about the old silversmith workshops in the centre of Athens that are gradually being transformed into luxury suites for short stays. Thus an entire sector is losing its professional space, which is a second blow after the ten-year economic crisis, which has decimated them anyway.
The documentary was about me personally. As the son of an old silversmith, for a while I was doing my father's bidding by trying to gain an interest in his work. So I was visiting all these buildings in the historic centre of Athens that are now hotels. I watched the whole decline of this particular industry, too many people leaving their profession, workshops years old closing down. I recently returned to the building that housed our family business, as a small part of it still survives. Three rooms where I have been in and out since childhood, with dozens of workers taking on jobs on three different floors, I found that all these rooms have become rooms for tourist exploitation. Like the rest of the building that housed various crafts, a hive that was bustling with life every day. Does it make me sad? Not really, partly because I never got to love my father's profession. But also because the whole area of Valaoritou Street in Thessaloniki, where the workshop was located, is now unrecognizable, it has completely changed its identity.
Read the full interview HERE
